The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-15

has increased from 4ol in that year to SAT. OF
the latter number sixteen represent Scotland
and twenty-eght Ireland.
GENERAL RossER is now a rich man, having,
since the war made fortune in the Northwest
as engineer of the Northern Pacific road and by
lucky speculation. lie lives in Charlottesville
Va, where he has built fine residence.
Ex-yIcE- PRESIDENT HANNIBAL HAMLIN, who
will be seventy eight in August. assures his
friends that he feels like healthy man of fifty
and is constantly counting back under a vague
feeling taat mistake has been made in estimat-
his year,
JOHN BURROUGHS will spend the summer in
California IL is said he will finish. the Pa
cifc slope. 1.-The greatest work of his life.n Mr..
Burroughs has rented his handsome residence,
the banks of the Hudson. few miles south
of Rondout to New YORK gentleman.
IT was the late Granville Moody, the Fight
ing Parson," who. at the battle of Stone river
rode along his lines shouting "Give EN- hell
boys; give 'em hell in the name of God and your
country but the pious old man always insisted
afterwards that what he really said was Give
'em Hail Columbia"
ENGLAND is to have q silver dollar, or its
equivalent proclamation by the Queen ap-
pears in the London Gazette, stating that it has
been thought fit to order that new coin to be
called double form, should be coined 1t will
weigh $40 grains, and pass current at the rate of
As, or one-ifth of Ell
DETROIT Free Press: He was almost mellow
enough to be pulled by the police when he came
home and reeled up to the telephone. Hello n
he said, cautiously, hello shentral. I want
M'ria!" ''What numbera" testify Twelve
hundrd an shebenty- bic four" why, you're at
that phone yourself" 80, don't min me-ring
Ter up anyhow
IN some parts of the wine districts of France
the church bells are tolled when there is likely to
be frost severe enough to hurt the vines. The
inhabitants at once hurry out of their houses
and place quantities of tar between the rows of
vines Then a signal is given to light the tar,
and in a few minutes dense cloud of smoke
arises which completely protects the vines from
the frost.
TID-BITs prints a full-page picture called
''The British Idea of Things" showinga gentle
man and lady viewing the Wild West Show
c'the fankeriesn1 from the seat of tilbury.
The scene in the ring represents the attack on
the mail-coach. The english swell" scrutn-
izing the fighting crowd of passengers, Indians.
and cowboys. through a single eye-glass.
claims, II wondah which is Greeenleaf Whit
tiah!'
IT is said DR.. Holmes, speaking OF tho fact
that he was born in the same year t1S09) that
witnessed the birth of Gladstone, Tennyson
Lord Houghton (which the Doctor suggests
promotes humility rather than vanity makes
this comment: Persons of the same year
watch each other, especially as the sands of life
begin to run low. we imagine many
damaged hour glasses. to keep an eye on each
other
THE Prince of Naples recently wrote a poem
a classic Greek subject and asked Signor
Verdi to set it to music for the Queens fete
The illustrious composer return ed it to him next
day with this message: ut took an hour
and half to read your Royal Highnesss verse;
The person charged to sing it would have to
work hard all day. AS for the composer to set
it to music, he must be younger man than
your devoted servant, Verdi"
CADET SKUNK, Of Pennsylvania, who has been
graduated at the head of his class at West Point
Is grandson of former Governor of the Key
stone State. Governor Skunk was a lf-made
man. He was obliged to go to work at ten years
of age. but managed to ''pick up" sufficient
education to become a school teacher at fifteen.
He taught school for nine years. He was twice
elected Governor of Pennsylvania His strength.
industry and ability have evidently been in
herited by his grandson.
JOHN c. FREMONT will soon make Point Pleas
ant, n. j.. his summer residence When he was
a candidate for President Of the United States
only one county in that State, Ocean, gave him
a Republican majority. It is not likely the ven
cradle General knew this, but he has
selected a cottage right in the midst of persons
who broke loose from the old Wing party and
supported HIM when many dared not shake off
party ties to do He has engaged a cottage in
one of the best and most quiet localities, house
that anyone might be proud to occupy. It is
known a the anchorage and lies fronting the
beautiful Manasquan river.